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Increasing Building Energy Efficiencies With Spaceloft Insul-Cap Nanotechnology Based Aerogel Insulation

Aspen Aerogels is introducing Spaceloft Insul-Cap, a new nanotechnology-based aerogel insulation product that adds R-value to wood- and steel-frame buildings, improving their energy efficiency. Spaceloft Insul-Cap is ...

19 Sep 2007

MEMS and Nanotechnology for Kids Book Shows Children and School Students that Small technologies are Cool

Bourne Research has announced publication of the new book, MEMS and Nanotechnology for Kids . Authored by Marlene Bourne, President & Principal Analyst of Bourne Research, the book gives readers a basic overview of M...

18 Sep 2007

Micromem Technologies has Engaged Global Communication Semiconductors For Next Stage of MRAM Development

Micromem Technologies Inc. is pleased to announce that it has engaged Global Communication Semiconductors, Inc. (GCS), for its next stage of MRAM development. GCS is a California based compound semiconductor pure-play wa...

18 Sep 2007

Real Time Footage of the Nanoscale Interaction of an Enzyme, a DNA Strand and an Attacking Virus

For the first time scientists have been able to film, in real time, the nanoscale interaction of an enzyme and a DNA strand from an attacking virus. Researchers from the University of Cambridge have used a revolutionary ...

18 Sep 2007

Nobel Peace Dropped as Fight Erupts Over New Nobel Prize in Energy Solutions

When the organizers of nanoTX’07 announced on August 30 that Dr. Michael Nobel will release details at the event for establishment of a new award associated with the Nobel Family name, it drew immediate fire from t...

18 Sep 2007

World's Thinnest Stand Alone Oscillator

SiTime Corporation, the world’s leading innovator of MEMS-based timing solutions, introduced today the timing industry’s thinnest standalone oscillator. With a maximum thickness of 400 microns (370 microns ty...

18 Sep 2007

Cheaper and More Effective Vaccine Using Nanoparticles

Good news for public health: Bioengineering researchers from the EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, have developed and patented a nanoparticle that can deliver vaccines more effectively, with fewer side effects, and at a fra...

18 Sep 2007

$2.9 Million for Nanotechnology Graduate Student Training Program at Cornell

Physicists, chemists, materials scientists and engineers often deal with the same problems, but they use different jargon. Talking to and collaborating with each other can be difficult, if not impossible. A new $2.9 mill...

18 Sep 2007

Carbon Nanotubes Help Bone Grow on Titanium Implants

For orthopaedic implants to be successful, bone must meld to the metal that these artificial hips, knees and shoulders are made of. A team of Brown University engineers, led by Thomas Webster, has discovered a new materi...

18 Sep 2007

How to Make Solar Energy Generation as Cheap as Growing Grass

Scientists are working to produce cheap, sustainable solar energy by imitating nature. Nanotechnology researchers like California Institute of Technology professor Nate Lewis are exploring nanoscale materials that mimic ...

18 Sep 2007

Phase Change Computer Memory Works 1000 Times Faster Than Current Memory

Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania have developed nanowires capable of storing computer data for 100,000 years and retrieving that data a thousand times faster than existing portable memory devices such as Fl...

18 Sep 2007

Neutron Research Completely Changes Accepted Belief of Inner Workings of Neutrons

For two generations of physicists, it has been a standard belief that the neutron, an electrically neutral elementary particle and a primary component of an atom, actually carries a positive charge at its center and an o...

18 Sep 2007

Miniature Sensor Measures Contaminants in Water and Air

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a miniature sensor that uses polymer membranes deposited on a tiny silicon disk to measure pollutants present in aqueous or gaseous environments. An array...

18 Sep 2007

DuraAct Piezoelectric Transducers for use as Bending Elements, Precision Positioner and High Dynamics Sensors

The P-876 DuraAct from Lambda Photometrics combines the functionality of the piezoceramic material as sensors or actuators, both for electrical charge generation and storage. As an actuator, it can be used as a bending e...

17 Sep 2007

Radio Waves to Cool Atoms

Visible and ultraviolet laser light has been used for years to cool trapped atoms - and more recently larger objects - by reducing the extent of their thermal motion. Now, applying a different form of radiation for a sim...

17 Sep 2007

Nanotechnology News

Increasing Building Energy Efficiencies With Spaceloft Insul-Cap Nanotechnology Based Aerogel Insulation

MEMS and Nanotechnology for Kids Book Shows Children and School Students that Small technologies are Cool

Micromem Technologies has Engaged Global Communication Semiconductors For Next Stage of MRAM Development

Real Time Footage of the Nanoscale Interaction of an Enzyme, a DNA Strand and an Attacking Virus

Nobel Peace Dropped as Fight Erupts Over New Nobel Prize in Energy Solutions

World's Thinnest Stand Alone Oscillator

Cheaper and More Effective Vaccine Using Nanoparticles

$2.9 Million for Nanotechnology Graduate Student Training Program at Cornell

Carbon Nanotubes Help Bone Grow on Titanium Implants

How to Make Solar Energy Generation as Cheap as Growing Grass

Phase Change Computer Memory Works 1000 Times Faster Than Current Memory

Neutron Research Completely Changes Accepted Belief of Inner Workings of Neutrons

Miniature Sensor Measures Contaminants in Water and Air

DuraAct Piezoelectric Transducers for use as Bending Elements, Precision Positioner and High Dynamics Sensors

Radio Waves to Cool Atoms

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